Fort Hood Shootings (2009)

After years of waiting, service members wounded and killed in the 2009 shooting rampage at Ft. Hood are awarded the Purple Heart in a ceremony at the central Texas military post Friday morning. Watch the ceremony live now The delay had been a sore point for the dozens wounded and the survivors of the 13 people killed when Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, yelling “God is great” in Arabic, opened fire in a processing center for military personnel preparing to ship overseas. Survivors of the attack and families of the dead had long fought to be eligible for the medal. Under previous law, the military categorized the attack as workplace violence, but a federal law that took...

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After years of waiting, service members wounded and killed in the 2009 shooting rampage at Ft. Hood are awarded the Purple Heart in a ceremony at the central Texas military post Friday morning.
Watch the ceremony live now
The delay had been a sore...

FT. HOOD, Texas — Military prosecutors cannot present most of the evidence they had sought to show what motivated the accused Ft. Hood shooter, a judge ruled Monday.
Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, 42, an American-born Muslim, faces a court-martial this week...

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